Note that the tutorial uses a breadboard to support the wire connections. The starter pack has a prototyping shield, which is similar but different. Breadboards do not require you to solder your wires. You must solder wires to the proto board.

Gee - I hate to sound like a homer, but for the same $65, you get WAYYYYY more stuff with the Adafruit starter pack.9V regulated power supply, USB cable, battery case with switch & plug, protoshield kit, 65 jumper wires, more resistors, more LEDs, pots, buttons, photocell sensor... The extras would cost you an extra $65 at RS.

And the Adafruit kit does have a breadboard after all - I forgot that it was in there!

If you decide to go with RS, though, make sure that you're getting a Uno R3 - that's the latest version. (Of course, we are shipping the R3).

To anser the specific question - IF you go for the breakout board version of the display instead of the shield version, the RS kit does not supply the jumper wires you will need to connect the display. The jumper wires in the Adafruit kit are extremely handy.

If you go with the shield version of the display, then you will have everything you need with either kit.